Saudi Arabia/Qatar: OPEC Chatroom Dead as Qatar Crisis Hurts Gulf Oil Cooperation

Nov 23, 2017 | Rania El Gamal and Dmitry Zhdannikov, Reuters
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As a six-month-old spat between Saudi Arabia and Qatar deepens, the organization’s Gulf ministers will have to scrap their tradition of meeting behind closed doors to agree policy before OPEC holds its twice-yearly talks, OPEC sources say. Four other sources said there had been no official contact on oil policy between the Gulf Arab nations, in a grouping known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).